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Old May 20, 2009, 07:43 PM
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I don't know if this will help you, but i will share my experience with this. Ideally, you could speak with a psychiatrist who specializes in DID, but i know that is not always an easy thing to do. I had an EEG done very soon after i was diagnosed with DID in 2000. Sometimes, temporal lobe seizures (they are also known as partial (complex, I think) sezures can look like dissociation and vice versa. My results showed no abnormalities, and so seizures were ruled out. these are the kind where a person tends to stare off, maybe blink but do not have tremors. From the research I've done, headaches and migraines are the most common physical symptom that are experienced by folks with DID. If the neurologist who read your EEG found nothing, then I think you can most likely trust that you are okay. I hope this helps, or at least gives you some leads into further research on your own or questions to ask your doctors. Take care. if safe
Thanks for the response. Unfortunately my EEG was abnormal in the temporal lobe. But the neurologist can't explain why it is abnormal since I am not having seizures and it is unlikely I am suddenly having seizures at 38 years old that are not noticable. I was worried about a tumor, but the MRI was fine. I did some research on it, and it seems there is some conection between the temporal lobe and possible dissociation, but I couldn't find anything definitive on it. Thanks!